Thursday, September 24, 2015

Who’s in Charge Here?

.Graphing Shakespeare

“But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a
masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell
us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is,
we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and
what the bad news is. And if I die — God forbid — I would like to go to heaven
to ask somebody in charge up there, ‘Hey, what was the good news and what was the
bad news?’”

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